Rehabilitation in Prison: Volume 1: A Secular Approach (In Prison Series)

Rehabilitation in Prison presents a refreshingly clear yet clinically supported approach to criminal rehabilitation. Drawing from contemporary authorities, the authors discuss commonly accepted techniques that prisoners can use to increase motivation to make positive lifestyle changes. Five chapters are devoted to increasing the reader's desire to change, thirteen chapters focus on describing many of the most common thinking patterns and corrective measures that prisoners can take to address them. The book concludes with 10 self-check tests that help readers thoroughly learn to identify and respond to fifteen troublesome thinking patterns and behaviors that often lead to criminal activity. Written by prisoners for prisoners. Provides excellent tips for success in change.

Bruce Micheals was incarcerated in 1989, when he was sixteen years old, for robbery and murder. After ten years in maximum security prisons and several in the "hole," Bruce turned his life around, graduated college, and launched a successful writing career. Bruce has helped establish the Self-Help in Prison (SHIP) correspondence program for prisoners and the Prison Experiment for Education and Rehabilitation (PEER) program. Sean D. French is a gifted musician who, while on tour with his band, fell deeply into drug and alcohol addiction and a criminal lifestyle that ultimately landed him in prison with a thirty-six year sentence. Determined, however, to turn his life around, Sean immersed himself in positive activities that transformed his heart and mind. Keven Brockway struggled with alcoholism from an early age. By the time he was old enough to legally drink alcohol, he was headed to prison for a very serious, alcohol related crime: Assault with Intent to Murder a Police Officer. Keven began studying his heritage and the accomplishments of his ancestors, for inspiration and motivation to turn his life around. Bryan Jones, a college student in the mid-80s, thought he could rob someone to acquire rent money. Now, after thirty years in prison for murder-resulting from the robbery attempt-Bryan often reflects on the most transformative experience in his life. Initially, he simply spent time examining his life, but he was strongly challenged by Dr. Manuel H. Pierson to do more than self-reflection. Adam Rogers has been charged with more than sixty crimes in the past ten years. Adam attributes his extensive criminal history to his heroin addiction and the criminal mentality that led to it. At just twenty-eight years old, Adam has been incarcerated in jail and prison dozens of times. Determined to change his life, Adam is applying the principles and techniques found in Rehabilitation in Prison as he pursues a degree in Psychology and counseling. Markell T. Marsh #331284 grew up on the Eastside of Detroit, Michigan, where he learned to glorify the drug dealing lifestyle that eventually led him to prison on a life sentence for murder. Markell struggled to overcome social pressures to continue criminal activity and elevated his critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and conflict resolution skills, which he was able to do through participation in Chance For Life (CFL),